So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

Is that about right ?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1272738

Not unless you are reading Leftist, revised History, again!Most original settlers found the Natives to be Friendly, they even helped the new arrivals. They lived together, but as the nature of man is, conflicts arose. European factions spurred this conflict to try to exploit it for political gain. Eventually the weaker Native tribes were dominated by the Stronger European's.Historical Revisionists forget that the Indians had been doing this to each other for Centuries, before the White man ever set foot in America.

That is perfectly OK though, as it does not appeal to the White Guilt Syndrome, that they are affected with.

So unless you are infected with, White Guilt Syndrome yourself, do some research and get the real facts.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28216119

Sort of the truth. But did you know that us poor stupid "Indians" could have a war and no one was killed. We had very rigid rules that must be followed. If the rules were broken, the person who broke the rules was broken. Not all wars were bloodless though, some were very bloody and hard, but those were the exception, not the rule.

Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

I think both of you should be more well versed in actual history

There was more native on native killing for 200 years before 1776 Than the settlers could have ever matched period

Learn history before mouthing revisionist bullshit

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28115964

This is a good example of a person that is brainwashed."Learn history".......ahahahhhaaaaa you gotta be kiddin me friend. If that were the case as you state, they wouldn't be living on reservations and were almost completely erradicated as people.They had their squabbles, sure, no one is saying they did not, but to say they were not slaughtered for their land is just a good case of ignorance is bliss.You really can't be that ignorant.....if you believe what you say, there really is no hope of you ever finding truth in many many lifetimes.......good luck with that!

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Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

The real story of the first Thanksgiving.

Every year around this time, most schoolchildren hear the same ol’ Thanksgiving story in their classrooms across the nation. That so-called official story is a heartwarming tale of how the Pilgrims and Native Americans shared a bountiful feast together. But it does not tell the full truth about what really happened on the Plymouth Plantation.

We’re told that the Pilgrims struggled for their survival when they landed in present-day Massachusetts in the 1620’s. Half of the Pilgrims starved to death or went back to England during the first year alone because of harsh winter weather and their lack of proper farming skills. Their chronic food shortages were ultimately resolved when the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn the following spring and together they celebrated their blessings with a huge feast.

That "official" story is nothing like what actually happened. For evidence of the failures of communism, we do not need to look to disastrous experiments in foreign lands. The Plymouth Plantation, one of the first English colonial ventures in North America, is actually one of the most evident examples of the failures of collectivism.

Centuries before the Communist Manifesto was even published, the Pilgrims set up an economic system that looked similar to the “utopia” advocated by Karl Marx. In the early years of the Plymouth Plantation, there was no such thing as private property. All property was held in common and it was forbidden for anyone to produce their own food. It was up to the plantation officials to distribute food and supplies to the Pilgrims based on equality and need.

The Plantation leaders showed their immense lack of knowledge regarding basic economic principles. Plymouth County Governor William Bradford wrote that, “the taking away of property, and bringing in community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing.” That clearly was not the case since the Pilgrims experienced great despair and massive food shortages for several years.

The Plymouth Plantation lacked the appropriate incentive structure. As economics Professor Benjamin Powell writes, “bad weather or lack of farming knowledge did not cause the pilgrims’ shortages. Bad economic incentives did.” Many Pilgrims faked illness or stole instead of working in the fields to produce food. William Bradford later wrote that the colony was filled with "corruption," and with "confusion and discontent." He stated that the crops were so small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable."

William Bradford finally decided to change course by implementing a new economic system in 1623. He assigned “every family a parcel of land” to do with it as they saw fit and the results were nothing short of miraculous. For the first time in the New World, families could enjoy the fruits of their labor. While it was not a complete private property system, the move away from collectivism saved the Pilgrims. As Governor William Bradford wrote that year, "instead of famine now God gave them plenty.”

Never again did the Pilgrims face widespread starvation and food shortages. Governor William Bradford wrote that this more capitalist system "had very good success for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been. By this time harvest was come…the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many." The colonists actually produced so much food in 1623 that they starting exporting corn. The Pilgrims were able to celebrate all of their blessings with plentiful feasts.

The real story of Thanksgiving shows why freedom works and collectivism doesn’t. Let us not forget the lessons of colonial America: collectivism will always fail to produce a happy and prosperous society.

.

Quoting: Conspiracy Theorist

I am confused about one thing. Didn't the American Indians live in a communal community? Is that where the idea actually came from?

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Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

Americans celebrating the murder of indigenous people, just goes to show nothing changes, a paranoid nation fullstop.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27800575

Any different than VETERANS Day or any other?To celebrate veterans day means to celebrate the death of those who had not gotten to the point of thinking for themselves and so they were used as pawns to go kill and be killed for their slave masters to reward themselves with the spool of another.Has absolutely NOTHING to do with the reason they were told to go kill....its about GREED of the slave drivers and the weakness of their pawns to just believe what they are told and do not question authority.What is that your slave driver told you??????"Yer either WITH us or against us".....g.w.bush

Live and Let Live

One need not pray or plead to our Creator.....all one needs to do is remove the walls!

One who refuses to Self Govern can expect someone else to Govern for them!

Until you give up the idea that happiness will be found somewhere else.....the next place, the next partner, new job..... you will never be happy!

Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

Is that about right ?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1272738

no.

that is the politically correct version.

Europeans arrived. Found most natives to be violent and some groups to be peaceful.

they ate dinner with some peaceful ones and it became known as thanksgiving.

the violent groups numbered in the dozens across the continent and the peaceful groups were a very few.

the violent groups had been raping, stealing, warring, enslaving, cannabilizing, along with every horrid practice imaginable for GENERATIONS. The far majority of 'natives' were in a constant battle with the other groups..

the europeans wanted to migrate here...just as ALL of these 'natives' had done several thousand years ago, mostly from mongolia.

the violent natives sought to kill europeanns just like they killed each other.

europeans were had more ingenuity, skill, and intelligence ...so the 'natives' fell quickly.

the peaceful natives got caught up in the battles which were very racial...so the europeans, simply considered ALL natives as enemies and either killed them or put them on reservations.

p.s. there are many archealogical escavations that have proven that Nords / Celts settled the east coast of the U.S. at least a few thousand years before the first 'native indians' but they were fewer in number and were likely wiped out by the invading MONGOLIANS (todays native indians)

Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

I think both of you should be more well versed in actual history

There was more native on native killing for 200 years before 1776 Than the settlers could have ever matched period

Learn history before mouthing revisionist bullshit

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28115964

This is a good example of a person that is brainwashed."Learn history".......ahahahhhaaaaa you gotta be kiddin me friend. If that were the case as you state, they wouldn't be living on reservations and were almost completely erradicated as people.They had their squabbles, sure, no one is saying they did not, but to say they were not slaughtered for their land is just a good case of ignorance is bliss.You really can't be that ignorant.....if you believe what you say, there really is no hope of you ever finding truth in many many lifetimes.......good luck with that!

Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

The real story of the first Thanksgiving.

Every year around this time, most schoolchildren hear the same ol’ Thanksgiving story in their classrooms across the nation. That so-called official story is a heartwarming tale of how the Pilgrims and Native Americans shared a bountiful feast together. But it does not tell the full truth about what really happened on the Plymouth Plantation.

We’re told that the Pilgrims struggled for their survival when they landed in present-day Massachusetts in the 1620’s. Half of the Pilgrims starved to death or went back to England during the first year alone because of harsh winter weather and their lack of proper farming skills. Their chronic food shortages were ultimately resolved when the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn the following spring and together they celebrated their blessings with a huge feast.

That "official" story is nothing like what actually happened. For evidence of the failures of communism, we do not need to look to disastrous experiments in foreign lands. The Plymouth Plantation, one of the first English colonial ventures in North America, is actually one of the most evident examples of the failures of collectivism.

Centuries before the Communist Manifesto was even published, the Pilgrims set up an economic system that looked similar to the “utopia” advocated by Karl Marx. In the early years of the Plymouth Plantation, there was no such thing as private property. All property was held in common and it was forbidden for anyone to produce their own food. It was up to the plantation officials to distribute food and supplies to the Pilgrims based on equality and need.

The Plantation leaders showed their immense lack of knowledge regarding basic economic principles. Plymouth County Governor William Bradford wrote that, “the taking away of property, and bringing in community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing.” That clearly was not the case since the Pilgrims experienced great despair and massive food shortages for several years.

The Plymouth Plantation lacked the appropriate incentive structure. As economics Professor Benjamin Powell writes, “bad weather or lack of farming knowledge did not cause the pilgrims’ shortages. Bad economic incentives did.” Many Pilgrims faked illness or stole instead of working in the fields to produce food. William Bradford later wrote that the colony was filled with "corruption," and with "confusion and discontent." He stated that the crops were so small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable."

William Bradford finally decided to change course by implementing a new economic system in 1623. He assigned “every family a parcel of land” to do with it as they saw fit and the results were nothing short of miraculous. For the first time in the New World, families could enjoy the fruits of their labor. While it was not a complete private property system, the move away from collectivism saved the Pilgrims. As Governor William Bradford wrote that year, "instead of famine now God gave them plenty.”

Never again did the Pilgrims face widespread starvation and food shortages. Governor William Bradford wrote that this more capitalist system "had very good success for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been. By this time harvest was come…the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many." The colonists actually produced so much food in 1623 that they starting exporting corn. The Pilgrims were able to celebrate all of their blessings with plentiful feasts.

The real story of Thanksgiving shows why freedom works and collectivism doesn’t. Let us not forget the lessons of colonial America: collectivism will always fail to produce a happy and prosperous society.

.

Quoting: Conspiracy Theorist

cite your references otherwise I just throw up the

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18585540

The source is William Bradford's own words. In case you didn't actually read, he was the governor of the Plymouth colony.

Re: So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ?

So let me get this again..Thanksgiving is when we came over here, shared some food then slaughtered the natives and stold their land ? Is that about right ?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1272738

stfu or im gonna have to come over there and knock you off your tricycle.....AGAIN.

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